Blood on the Bayou: “They Live” and “The Thing”

Shotgun Cinema presents a spooky double feature of films by director John Carpenter.

A still from director John Carpenter’s They Live (1988).

Shotgun Cinema screens two cult classics by director John Carpenter: They Live (1988) and The Thing (1982). In They Live, Earth’s wealthy elite are unveiled as aliens controlling the human population through subliminal messaging. And The Thing follows a team of scientists in the Antarctic as they fight a shape-shifting creature.